Re: Child Status Changed

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:52:09 -0500 (EST)

According to Hugh Messenger:
>
> I'm getting a lot of "Child Status Changed - core dumped" messages from
> radius 2.4.7 on one of my Solaris 2.4, x86 boxes.
>
> Unfortunately (don't ask) I can't run 'dbx' on my x86 boxes ...
>
> Any ideas what may be causing this? (the radius problem, that is ... I *know*
> why 'dbx' won't run .. :)

I've just become aware of this "bug" in the last 24 hours from some
folks here in Michigan running Solaris. It is a bug in the forking
or signal behaviour of Merit RADIUS under the SVR4/Solaris stuff
which is undoubtedly my doing (from lack of SVR4 understanding)

I have not found the exact problem nor the fix. I have made one
suggestion to one user: turn on the "-s" option (no forking)
and see if the behaviour changes (and let me know). I am
wrestling too many alligators in my local pool to have lots of
time right now to devote to this one -- sorry guys, I'm spread
too thin... :-(

Regards,

web...

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